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We're excited to announce Boards v0.7.0, our biggest release yet! This version brings 20+ new AI generators spanning image, video, and audio generation, major UI/UX improvements, and critical infrastructure upgrades.

🎨 New AI Generators: A Creative Powerhouse​

This release dramatically expands Boards' AI capabilities with support for cutting-edge models:

Image Generation​

• ByteDance SeedDream - High-quality text-to-image and image editing
• Gemini 2.5 Flash - Google's fast image editing model
• FAL AI Suite - Text-to-image, image editing, and GPT Image 1.5
• Kie Generators - Additional creative image generation options

Video Generation​

• Google Veo 3.1 - Multiple variants including standard, fast, and image-to-video modes
• FAL Video Suite - Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
• Veed Fabric 1.0 - Professional video generation

Audio & Avatars​

• FAL Text-to-Speech - Both standard and turbo variants for high-quality voice synthesis
• FAL AI Avatar Video - Generate realistic avatar videos

With these additions, Boards now supports 20+ new generators, giving you unprecedented creative flexibility in a single platform.

🎭 Dark Mode & Theme Support​

Your eyes will thank you. Boards now supports full dark mode with a polished theme switcher.

What's New​

• Light/Dark/System themes - Choose your preference or follow your system settings
• Semantic color tokens - Consistent theming throughout the app
• Smooth transitions - No jarring flashes when switching themes
• Persistent preferences - Your theme choice is saved across sessions

The theme implementation uses next-themes with proper SSR hydration, ensuring a seamless experience without layout shifts or theme flashing.

📤 Multi-File Uploads​

Gone are the days of uploading files one at a time. The new multi-file upload feature transforms how you work with assets.

Key Features​

• Concurrent uploads - Upload multiple files simultaneously with individual progress tracking
• Drag & drop support - Drop multiple files at once
• Per-file progress - See the status of each upload independently
• Cancel functionality - Stop individual uploads that are taking too long
• Upload summary - Get a complete report when all uploads finish

The useMultiUpload hook is available in the frontend package, making it easy to add multi-file upload to your own Boards applications.

✏️ Inline Board Title Editing​

Quick edits are now truly quick. Click the edit icon next to any board title to rename it in place.

Features​

• Inline editing - No need to navigate to settings
• Auto-focus - Start typing immediately
• Keyboard shortcuts - Enter to save, Escape to cancel
• Validation - Prevents empty titles and provides clear error messages
• Optimistic updates - UI responds immediately while saving in the background

🔍 Better Generator Selector​

Finding the right generator is now effortless with our redesigned selector.

Improvements​

• Search functionality - Filter generators by name or description
• Type filtering - Quick filter pills for image, video, audio, and text
• Recently used - Your last 3 generators appear at the top for quick access
• Keyboard navigation - Auto-focus on the search field when opened
• Persistent MRU list - Recently used generators persist across sessions

The selector uses React's useDeferredValue for smooth performance even with many generators.

🗑️ Safe Generation Deletion​

Delete generations you no longer need with confidence.

Features​

• Confirmation dialog - Prevents accidental deletions
• Authorization checks - Only board owners and generation creators can delete
• Comprehensive deletion - Removes both the generation record and storage artifacts
• Clear feedback - Toast notifications confirm successful deletion
• Proper error handling - Clear messages if deletion fails

The backend properly validates permissions and includes comprehensive test coverage for all authorization scenarios.

🏗️ Infrastructure Improvements​

Behind the scenes, we've made important upgrades to ensure Boards scales reliably.

Thread-Safe Database Connections​

The async database connection system now uses thread-local storage, preventing connection sharing across event loops. This is especially important for:

• Test runners with multiple threads
• Background workers
• Applications with concurrent async operations

The implementation follows SQLAlchemy best practices with proper initialization locks and resource cleanup.

PostgreSQL Driver Upgrade​

Migrated to psycopg v3, PostgreSQL's modern Python driver:

• Better async support
• Improved performance
• More robust connection pooling
• Enhanced type support

Developer Experience​

• New make format command - Auto-format both Python and JavaScript code
• Improved documentation - New Makefile command reference and architecture guides
• CLI launcher fixes - More reliable project scaffolding and management

📚 Documentation Updates​

We've expanded our documentation to help you get the most out of Boards:

• Architecture and Customization - In-depth guide to Boards' architecture
• GraphQL API documentation - Detailed mutation documentation including authorization rules
• README improvements - Added links to docs and Discord community

🐛 Bug Fixes​

• Fixed download functionality - Assets now download reliably
• Fixed delete issues - Generation deletion now works correctly in all scenarios
• Various UI fixes - Improved error handling and edge case behavior

🚀 Getting Started​

New Projects​

Create a new Boards project with a single command:

npx @weirdfingers/baseboards up my-boards-app

Existing Projects​

Upgrade to v0.7.0:

# Update dependencies
pnpm install

# Pull latest Docker images
make docker-up

# Run database migrations (if any)
make dev-backend

🙏 Thank You​

This release includes 30+ merged pull requests and represents significant development effort. Special thanks to everyone who reported issues, tested features, and provided feedback.

Join our Discord community to share what you're building with Boards!

📝 Full Changelog​

For the complete list of changes, see the v0.7.0 release notes.

Contributors​

• @cdiddy77

🔮 What's Next​

We're already working on v0.8.0 with exciting features including:

• Additional AI model providers
• Enhanced board collaboration features
• Performance optimizations
• More UI polish

Stay tuned for more updates!

Based on the Loom walkthrough

1. Creating a New Baseboards Project​

0:00

The walkthrough begins the way all good projects do: with a single command line incantation:

npx @weirdfingers/baseboards up my-boards-app

This command scaffolds a brand-new Baseboards project—frontend, backend, worker, and infrastructure templates included. If you’ve ever wished your “new project” button also came with working Docker orchestration and a GraphQL API, this is it.

2. API Keys & Docker: The “Why Is My Laptop Spinning Up Containers?” Section​

0:11

You’ll enter a few model provider API keys, and then—almost before you can ask “is this strictly necessary?”—Docker Compose launches.

A reasonable question at this point:

Why Docker for a local app? Isn’t Docker for, like, distributed systems and people who enjoy YAML?

In Baseboards’ case, Docker gives us:

• isolated containers for Postgres, Redis, worker, and API services
• identical environments across local dev, staging, and production
• a deployment model that moves cleanly from “my laptop” → “my startup” → “my questionable future Kubernetes cluster”

Yes, it’s a lot of machinery for a local app.
But it’s the same machinery you’ll want later when Baseboards is hosting thousands of artifacts instead of three test PNGs.

3. Scalability Isn’t Just Marketing​

0:34

One of Baseboards’ goals is to scale to any deployment shape:

• Kubernetes: for the “I run a cluster and am emotionally prepared for this” crowd
• Single backend: the “just give me one machine that works” use case
• Local development: everything running neatly in containers, immune to dependency drift

The same architecture works across all three. That’s why we start on Docker—it’s the lowest common denominator that still behaves like a real distributed system.

4. Creating a New Board & Meeting Nano Banana Pro​

1:09

Once the environment is up, you can head to localhost:3300 and create a new board.
Boards are the top-level containers for your artifacts—images, videos, text, audio, diagrams, all of it.

This release introduces support for:

Nano Banana Pro​

A shockingly good model for infographics, diagrams, and other structured image output.

5. Testing Nano Banana Pro With an Architectural Diagram​

1:16

To test the model, we ask it to generate an architectural diagram of Baseboards itself.

The prompt was generated using Claude, which was asked to:

1. Look at the Baseboards project code
2. Summarize the system architecture
3. Produce a prompt describing that architecture visually

It’s AI analyzing code to produce a prompt for another AI to generate an image of the code used by the first AI.
This is what software development looks like now. We’re all just living in it.

6. Monitoring the Worker and Logs​

2:07

When the model is generating, you can:

• click into the job
• or—if you enjoy the feeling that you are in a late-90s hacker movie—
  check the logs in the terminal.

(inside the project directory)

npx @weirdfingers/baseboards logs -f

You’ll see the worker pick up the job, send it to Nano Banana Pro, receive the output, and push it back through the API.

Baseboards’ logs are human-readable, which is a refreshing change from certain systems we won’t name.

7. Infographic Success (Mostly)​

2:37

When the worker finishes, the artifact appears directly on your board.

The generated infographic:

• is visually clean
• maps the major components correctly
• contains several arrows
• and—most impressively—gets most of them pointing in the right direction

There are a few small hallucinations (e.g. Midjourney support, which Baseboards emphatically does not have), but diagram-hallucination is a known side effect of models trying to be helpful.

8. Architecture Overview (AI-Generated, Human-Corrected)​

3:07

The real Baseboards architecture looks like this:

• Frontend (Next.js)
• FastAPI + GraphQL backend
• Postgres
• Redis
• Worker process
• Model provider

The AI-generated diagram was close but forgot the part where the worker writes results back to the database, which is arguably the most important arrow.
We’ll blame the prompt, not the model.

9. Next Steps: Exploring the Project Structure​

4:03

The next episode will dig into:

• what’s inside the generated Baseboards project
• how the API, worker, and frontend are wired together
• where to customize jobs and add new model providers
• how the Docker services communicate
• and how to extend Baseboards to support new artifact types

Think of this episode as the appetizer.
Next time we go into the folder structure—the part everyone skips until something catches fire.

Full Video Walkthrough​

https://loom.com/share/f496dcd5f36c49cb9d308667bff813dd